Clinton's global crime plan

Joseph Farah is founder, editor and chief executive officer of WND. He is the author or co-author of 13 books that have sold more than 5 million copies, including his latest, "The Gospel in Every Book of the Old Testament." Before launching WND as the first independent online news outlet in 1997, he served as editor in chief of major market dailies including the legendary Sacramento Union.

The Clinton administration this week announced a comprehensive plan to
target the growing power of sophisticated international organized crime
syndicates.

It’s called the International Crime Control Strategy, which identifies
the major global threats to the United States as drug trafficking,
acquisition or sale of weapons of mass destruction by criminal, the
transfer of sensitive U.S. technology to rogue foreign states and
trafficking in women and children.

Drug trafficking? Transfer of sensitive technology? Trafficking in
women? These are certainly areas in which the Clinton administration has
expertise. He has long associated with drug dealers, even pardoning one as
governor, and his connections to activity at Mena Airport in Arkansas has
long been a matter of suspicion. As president he was responsible for
perhaps the single most serious transfer of sensitive technology since
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, with his approval of the sale of missile
guidance systems to China. And, as far as trafficking in women, does it
count when it’s for your own use?

Seriously, folks, if I didn’t know better I would think this plan,
announced at this moment, was a practical joke — an idea worthy of
“Saturday Night Live.”

If the administration is serious about stamping out organized crime, it
could begin by cleaning out its own house. Here’s just a partial, quickie
list of the felony convictions in and around Bill Clinton since he took
office: Webster Hubbell, Jim McDougal, Susan McDougal, Gov. Jim Guy Tucker,
David Hale, Robert W. Palmer, Chris Wade, Neal T. Ainley, Henry Espy,
Michael Brown, Eugene Lum, Nora Lum and Johnny Chung.

Of course, there are lots more name we could add — the suicides, the
murders, the accident victims, those who have been harassed and intimidated
for daring to cross the administration. … It all begins to look
suspiciously like a pattern of racketeering, organized crime, a mob-style
operation.

My first thought upon reading of Clinton’s plan is that the initiative
sounds more like a way to rub out the competition. It sounds like there’s
going to be a good, old-fashioned gang war.

If I were an international organized crime figure not paying sufficient
tribute to Don Clinton, I’d be nervous. It looks like the Godfather is
getting ready to make a move.